BUNZEL] PARAPHERNALIA 867 



katcinas, will wear these feathers because the eagle is strong and 

 wise and land. He travels far in aU directions and so he will surely 

 bring us the rains. The eagle feathers must always come first." 



That is why the katcinas always wear eagle feathers, because the 

 eagle found the little boy and brought him do^^^l and sent his feathers 

 with him. 



When a mask of the helmet type is worn, the hair, provided it is 

 long, is plaited in two plaits which are woxmd around the neck under 

 the mask. With face masks which leave the head exposed long hair 

 is reqxiired, and if the wearer has cut his hair, as have most of the 

 yoimger men, he supplements his shorn or scanty locks with a wig or a 

 switch of horsehair, so cleverly arranged as to be almost impossible 

 to detect. The short-haired or Laguna Tcakwena weai-s a piece of 

 goatsldn to which eagle down is stuck, covering the top and back of 

 the head. Usually the hair is left hanging free, ornamented with 

 feathers according to the ceremonial affiliation of the beings imper- 

 sonated. Rain dancers wear a bunch of macaw and downy eagle 

 feathers on the crown and downy feathers attached to a weighted 

 string hanging dowm the back. Some warrior impersonations 

 (Hainawi, pi. 32, b; Tcakwena, pis. 38, 39, 40) wear eagle down stuck 

 to the hair with yucca sirup. The red feather that is the badge of 

 society membership may be tied to the forelock (Tcalaci, pi. 48, c) 

 or to a fillet of yucca encircling the head (Towa Tcakwena, pi. 38). 



Female impersonations have their hair dressed in eitlier of two 

 fashions. Maidens have their liair bound over scjuare pieces of wood 

 and fastened with yarn. (Kokwe'le, pi. 35, b.) This is said to be the 

 ancient headdress of Zuni maidens, and is not unlilve the whorled 

 headdress still worn by Hopi maidens. Other female impersonations 

 have the hair done up behuad in the fashion at present affected by 

 Zuni women. (Hemokatsik', pi. 28, b.) Some few females who wear 

 helmet masks have the hair arranged in two plaits over the ears, the 

 usual headdress of Hopi married women. (Komokiitsik, pi. 35, c. 

 Compare Hopi Kutcamana, Fewkes, pi. XLIV.) In one case (Kola*- 

 hniana) half of the hair is loosely tied with yam, the other half is 

 woimd over a curved stick. The Zunis can not explain this peculiar 

 headdress. The curved stick is such a one as Hopi girls use in dressing 

 their hair, and the Hopi, who have the same impersonation under a 

 different name (Tcakwaina Mana), teU the tale that a raiding party 

 arrived in the village while the girl was having her hair- dressed. 

 She seized her brother's weapons and went out to fight the enemy, 

 rusliing out with her hair half done. The Zuiii impersonation is also 

 an Amazon, though imconnected with the tcakwena set. 



Other headdresses are worn by the men, the usual man's headdress 

 (Tcalaci), the special headdress of the Ne'we'kwe (Nepaiyatamu), the 

 buckskin cap of the bow priests (O'wiwi). 



